The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-11
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE,


MIR. Andrew Carnegie, the million
aire manufacturer and literator, has writ
ten letter declining TO participate in or
assist the proposed celebration of the
Queens jubilee in New York, on the
grounds that he is San American citizen
who rejects the monarchical idea as in
consistent with and insulting to his man.
hood"
The venerable Rev. 8. F. Smith, au-
thor OF the familiar hymn, "My country,
It's of thee, visited the Board of Trade. in
Chicago the other day. For a few moments
trading stopped. The noisy boys gave
their distinguished guest hearty well
come as in grand chorus of voices, they
united In singing the first verse of our
national hymn to the tune america"
1t was happy incident and will not soon
be forgotten by those present.
EDWIN Forrest was among the Spec
tators OF the reception of Lafayette, and
liked to tell how the French patriot ques-
TONED everybody who saluted him: /" Are
you married." he would ask. and If il
was Yes, general" the polite MARQUIS
would say, "Happy manp and il the
next one answered "Nol' to the same in
terrogatory, the "illustrious guest" would
also exclaim happy manr'
""Sir Walter Scott" SAYS Agnes
Repplier, in the Atlantic Monthly for
March, "who was strangely disposed to
undervalue his own merit as poet, pre-
served the most genuine enthusiasm for
the work of others. When his little
daughter was asked by James Ballantyne
what she thought of The Lady of the
Lake. she answered with perfect simplic-
ity that she had not read it. Papa says
there is nothing SO bad for young people
as reading bad poetry"
The ingenuity of criminals is we'll
evinced in this: Theodore Hair, the New
York butler, has pleaded guilty to stealing
diamonds from society women in whose
houses he was employed. He was dia-
mond setter by trade, and found it an
easy task to remove the real diamonds
and insert paste ones in their stead.
When he had gone through the jewelry
at one house he was ready for an engage
ment as butler at another.
Miss Frances Alexander {" Fran
cesca"), the American artist who lives in
Florence and wrote the beautiful STORY
OF Ida." which Ruskin ushered into the
world few years ago, was the subject
OF an interesting sketch in the Critic of
April 30, by lisa Darlington Cabell, who
visited the lady in her studio in the win
ter OF 1885. Those who have seen Ida's
lovely face in Miss Alexander's book and
read her pathetic story will be glad to
know more of her and her biographer.-
The Independent.
john Francis Nicholas Wilkinson
the assistant law librarian of the con-
gressional library at Washington is col
ored man, and has been in office thirty
years. He was first employed when twen-
ty-nine years old as laborer to assist in
cleaning the general library. He was
soon detailed to the law library, and
there through grades of laborer, messen-
ger and assistant librarian he has served
ever since. His perfect familiarity with
the law library is marvel to all.
-"All is absurd in the history of
art said dealer, the other day. "Millet
lived only by loans. So did Rousseau.
So did jules Dupre, until ten years ago.
Michel died at a hospital, leaving many
paintings on paper because he was too
poor to buy canvas. A portfolio of ten
OF those paintings sold for ten francs, all
told. Recently one of the ten pictures
sold for eight hundred dollars. The sue
cess of an artist is mostly a question of
management. If two or three well-known
amateurs lead, the others will follow
They do not understand, but they will
buy"
SO nervous and irritable has the
Gear become that the causes of his troub
les must never be mentioned to him in
any way. In order to obey his wishes in
this respect, the very newspapers he
reads have to be specially prepared. He
now receives no other papers but those
expressly printed for him; the veriest
penny magazines Of old, containing at
best few inoffensive dispatches, the
rest being made up of society gossip and
theatrical notes, with at best leader or
two thrown in, recounting the blessings
OF his autocrat government, without an
over strict adherence to truth in their
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